Staff Engineer, Electronic Design Engineering

Western Digital•Colorado Springs, CO

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Western Digital is looking for an electrical engineer responsible for design of high-performance storage enclosures and servers for the enterprise marketplace. This is a high-impact, high visibility opportunity for someone who has superior technical skills, excels at collaboration, is a strong leader, and possesses an enthusiasm for success.

Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
At least 0-5+ years of PCBA development experience in computing, storage or related fields.
Be well organized with strong attention to detail
Good verbal and written communication skills
Willingness to work individually, and as a team member, to ensure commitments are met
Able to effectively coordinate and guide the activities of others to meet goals
Exceptional interpersonal skills, capable of interfacing effectively with peers on other teams
Digital circuit design expertise
Understanding of high-speed circuit concepts applicable to current generations of PCIe, Ethernet, and SAS/SATA bus architectures.
Familiarity with printed circuit board technologies including transmission lines, techniques for reducing signal reflections, and power supply switch-node layout
Experience implementing power circuits including DC/DC converters and regulators
High proficiency in using standard electrical lab equipment to verify electrical designs
Skilled at using the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

Experience leading small or large teams to successfully develop hardware
FPGA based design experience, including electrical design, programming and verification
Experience with high performance server CPUs and implementations
Working knowledge of Cadence Allegro Design Entry Capture and Allegro PCB Designer, including use of constraints, is a plus.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design of enterprise class storage enclosures and servers. These products will include things like hard drives, SSDs, power supplies, and printed circuit board assemblies. Such PCBAs would include features like SOCs, processors, memory, high power delivery, and high-speed data communication interfaces.
Be responsible for the development of PCBAs through the entire design cycle, including writing specifications, performing schematic capture, overseeing layout, developing proof-of-concept, coordinating the build of prototypes, technical board bring-up and integration of the prototype systems, and extensive design verification testing.
Be responsible for releasing all relevant data into Western Digital’s revision control system and working with manufacturing to resolve any production issues.
Work closely with other organizations within Western Digital, including product management, procurement, quality, and manufacturing engineering, to assure that your PCBA designs meet all product and regulatory requirements, and can be effectively verified, manufactured, and tested.
Conduct design and feature reviews, be accountable for tracking schedules, issues and resolutions, and work with international suppliers and manufacturing locations.

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the WD Savings 401(k) Plan
overtime pay
shift differential pay
bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”)
annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires